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Leela
Mata is an
internationally known teacher with great
wisdom. She comes from the
Sivananda lineage, and studied
directly under Swami Vishnu
Devananda for seven years. Leela Mata
also studied Ayurveda with Dr. Vasant
Lad in both, the United States and
India.
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Leela Mata
with Swami Nadabrahmananda
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In the United States Leela
Mata directed the Yoga Vedanta Center in
Ft. Lauderdale. While directing the
center, she and Yogi Hari developed
Sampoorna Yoga and trained hundreds of
teachers who practice throughout the
world. She has also taught worldwide,
including Africa, Europe, India, Canada
and South America.
Each year Leela Mata makes
a return pilgrimage to India for ongoing
education and enlightenment.
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Her time spent in the
company of great teachers helps her delve
deeper into Sadhana.
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... with Swami
Satchidananda
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... with
Dr. Misra (middle) and Yogi Hari
(left)
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She actively continues her
mission through Leela Mata Foundation for
Enlightenment in the tradition of Swami
Sivananda and his direct disciple Swami
Vishnu-Devananda. Leela Mata permanently
provides a new thought-force that helps to
promote the peace and harmony of mankind and
the prosperity of society.
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Swami Sivananda
(1887 - 1963)
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Swami Sivananda is one of
the most prominent Yoga masters of the
20th century. His passion for service
drew him to the medical career and he
went to Malaysia to direct a hospital,
where he felt his service was most
needed. He discovered that people needed
right knowledge most of all and the
dissemination of that knowledge became
his mission. In 1932 he founded the
Sivananda ashram in Rishikesh and in 1936
the Divine Life Society. He is the author
of many books and himself reached the
ultimate goal of all Yoga practices, the
self-realization.
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The magnitude of his personality
and his loving way brought many disciples to
him, like Swami Vishnu-Devananda
(1927 - 1993), who founded the international
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in Europe,
Canada and in the United States.
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